Autunite

Autunite ranges in color from bright yellow to pale or deep green. It is one of the more attractive and popular radioactive minerals. Uranium in its chemical formula provides this radioactivity. The crystal aggregates look like inflated mica books and are very distinctive. It encourages the user to not only embrace changes offering the highest reward, but to seek those changes which will most benefit the user’s development.

Crystal System:	Tetragonal
Cell Salt:	Hydrous phospate of calcium and uranium, often with some barium and magnesium
Color:	Strongly fluorescent; lemon to sulphur yellow, yellow-green or green
Energy:	Receptive
Element:	Earth
Planet/Sign:	Saturn/Capricorn (closest cell salt equivalent); Mars-Pluto/Aries
Stone Lore:	Autunite is mined in Washington State, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and New Mexico.
Medicine Uses:	Use autunite crystal to stimulate creative imagination as well as to bring the ming under conscious control and direction This crystal works to open up the sight center, thus enhancing the supersensory functions of hindsight, foresight, and insight. Lemon yellow autunite crystals are most desirable for raising sexual energy to the heart level. Yellow-green and green crystals reflect Earth energy and may be used to concentrate love within the heart center. Try this five-minute love medicine: Hold a yellow-green or green autunite crystal in the open palm of your receptive hand. Relax and breathe deeply, inhaling and exhaling through the nose. Now, drop your awareness to your heart and continue to breath through the heart center. Breathe in the love of the Earth and all its creatures and things. Exhale love right back at them.